Now our winter vacation is over and studying continues. I am in Finland and I am going back to Germany at the end of January, when the exam period starts. The Corona situation in Finland is much better. One can spend time with their close ones and can even spend time outside without time restrictions. There is not much to talk about this week, but I can say that it has been quite difficult to start to…
Continue readingWeek 51 – First “real” school day
This week we had our first “real” school day. On Wednesday I and Ville were allowed to visit two campuses on the same day. First in the morning we had a Industrial communication lab where we literally hacked a interned switch. I personally found that topic really interesting. Later in the evening we had a…
Continue readingWeek 50 – Curfew
At the weekend State of Baden Württemberg announced curfew and more restrictions for living and traveling, one day later German government announced way stricter measures applying nationwide curfew is from 20.00 to 05.00. That is not good news for us exchange students whom school is already mostly in online and only social activity is to…
Continue readingWeek 49 – Birds eye view
Hello! Another busy week behind. Weather has been pretty cold and we even had some snow this week. Homeworks and projects have been increasing a little and we have to spend much of our free time doing all kinds of assignments. Before Christmas German language and German history courses end, so after that managing the…
Continue readingWeek 48, Autumn and outlet
This week, the weather has been great. I have a habit to go every morning for a small walk. That helps me to get ready and concentrate to study. At the morning temperature is near zero so man must put some more clothes on than regular jacket and t shirt. During the day sun starts…
Continue readingWeek 47, Hot Pot
Another week passed and things are going forward. Days here go fast and that has pros and cons. All the places are closed, so we do not have many ways to spend our “free time”. We spend our time studying and meeting with our international friends at the dorms. This week I had many eye-opening…
Continue readingWeek 46, Trip to home
As the Germany’s government implemented COVID-19 actions, example full Lockdown. Me and Lari decided that now would-be perfect time to visit Finland to see friend’s family and girlfriends. We flew at Friday 13st to Amsterdam and from there to Finland. At the airport there were free COVID-19 testing, but we had to do testing at…
Continue readingWeek 45 – More or less routine week
Hello, another week has passed. School work has been demanding and this weekend we spent mostly writing program for microprocessor lab. During this week I also got chance visit at university here in Göppingen campus to get some instructions for my mechatronics project, in which i will be working as a team among four other…
Continue readingWeek 44, Karelia pies
Hello again Now there are a few weeks gone by regular studies, all the courses have started so there has been quite a lot of work. There is little else to add, but I want to point out that sometimes we have gathered all as a group to follow lecture, cause these times you have…
Continue readingWeek 43, Time flies
Hello to everyone! One month here in Germany goes really fast. This week especially went past in the blink of an eye. Our studies continued and now we have a little more information about what we have to do to pass all the courses. To me that brings a bit more confidence but on the…
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